"You just realized now? Haven't I always been like this? You just don't know me well enough yet." Chu Molin thought, perhaps this person doesn't know him well enough yet. Otherwise, they wouldn't say this; they would instead say: they will never truly know him in this life.
There's a difference between someone who is truly ruthless and someone who is only superficially ruthless. No matter what, someone who's truly ruthless is frightening, especially their gaze, which can be suffocating and scary. But someone who's superficially ruthless is just a paper tiger. Chu Molin is ruthless when needed and soft-hearted when needed, so people around him don't feel that he is ruthless. Although he is aloof, he is genuinely good to his friends. Therefore, Chu Molin's ruthlessness is reserved for his enemies. To his people, he is cold on the outside but warm inside.
